On July 31, Dixon, 38, reportedly shot her husband, Carl Omar Dixon, 44, outside of her home in self-defense. AL.com reports, “Selma police officers were dispatched at 8:30 a.m. to the home at 2113 Church Street, said Selma Police Chief Spencer Collier. Once on the scene, they found 44-year-old Carl Omar Dixon unresponsive in the front yard. He was pronounced dead on the scene.”

The police chief Collier said Dixon “shot her husband with a small-caliber handgun. She claimed the victim had charged at her in an aggressive manner.” Dixon was taken into custody and booked into the Dallas County Jail with bond set at $100,000.

There was a history of documented abuse, Dixon had a protection from abuse order against her husband and was awarded temporary custody of the their two children. Nonetheless, for a reason we are sure you can figure out, no mention of Stand Your Ground has come up in this case, as The Root pointed out.

According to AL.com, the Stand Your Ground law in Alabama is, “A person still must have a justifiable reason for using physical force and can’t be the original aggressor. But there is no longer a duty to retreat. Physical force is not justified if the person is engaged in an unlawful activity or the person they are using the defensive force against is a law enforcement officer acting in the performance of his or her official duty.”

22. Scenes From The Demonstration Against Racism At Starbucks

The protest is growing outside the @Starbucks. The woman on the right in the red shirt is 90 years old and told a story about her father who died when she was 9 as a result of racial profiling and police brutality. pic.twitter.com/DxQb5OYtSG

Activists Protest Racial Profiling, Arrests Of Black People In Starbucks

Black Lives Matter activists called for a boycott of the Starbucks coffee chain just days after an employee called the police to arrest two Black men inside a Philadelphia location were not buying anything and wouldn't leave. Despite a number of factors that should have convinced police to show discretion and restraint -- the men were not armed; they were not violent; they did not resist arrest; the White man who they were meeting yelled at the police that the men did nothing wrong; a bystander filmed the entire episode on video -- then men were still taken into custody Thursday.
The video has since gone viral.
https://twitter.com/missydepino/status/984539713016094721
The first of what is expected to be many protests took place April 14 at the Starbucks location in question.